Can Android apps access /dev or /sys without rooting the device?
I have permission problems when doing this from an Activity.
Can it work and the native layer?
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AFAIK, no.
If you mean, “can I write an NDK library to access
/dev/or/sys/?”, the language in which you write the code will not matter. It is a matter of processes, users, and permissions.